 This month’s four-minute FirstMile Founder interview features Luke Norris, co-founder and CEO of Kamiwaza, a FirstMile 2024 portfolio company. Kamiwaza.ai is driving enterprise AI innovation with a focus on secure, scalable GenAI deployments. With extensive experience raising over $100M in venture capital and leading global AI/ML deployments for Fortune 500 companies, Luke is passionate about enabling enterprises to unlock the full potential of AI with unmatched flexibility and efficiency.
8/25/2025
When AI Writes CodeIn a follow-up to my last post on AI, Mind the Memory Gap, in this post I dig into AI's promise, pitfalls, and how to make it work for senior engineering leaders and the C-suite. In the past two years, the narrative has shifted from “AI can’t code” to “AI can build apps in minutes.” The challenge is that both statements are wrong in isolation. By, Bill Miller  AI can do remarkable things, but it has a big limitation: the “context window,” or memory barrier. This explains why it can suddenly “forget” what you just told it—and why human-like memory will take time, resources, and innovation. For now, AI is best viewed as a powerful, if sometimes forgetful, assistant—especially when designed with its memory limits in mind. By, Bill Miller   This month’s four-minute FirstMile Founder interview features Nick Ross, co-founder and CEO of CloudCapsule, a FirstMile 2020 portfolio company. A respected voice in the MSP space, Nick reaches tens of thousands through his YouTube channel, T-Minus365, and was named a Microsoft MVP twice in 2023. After moving to Colorado in 2017 to join Pax8 as employee #40, he led product management for PSA and Microsoft integrations before later serving as an executive at Sourcepass.
 This month’s four-minute FirstMile Founder interview features Stephanie Wibom, Founder and CEO of GrowHappy, a FirstMile Ventures 2020 portfolio company. GrowHappy was born out of Stephanie’s journey to help her daughter overcome life-threatening food allergies. Alongside the world’s top allergists, she’s working to prevent and eliminate food allergies through early food introduction — turning fear into food freedom for families. Before this journey, she built her career at Merrill Lynch, P&G, and Bain Consulting, always focused on products that solve mothers’ real problems.
 Many founders are curious about what it’s like to raise a VC fund. They want to know how it compares to their experience raising capital, and I think there’s a bit of satisfaction knowing that VCs have to go through it too!
By, Aaron Stachel  This month’s four-minute FirstMile Founder interview features Ian Koons, co-founder and CEO of Karoo Health, a FirstMile Ventures portfolio company since 2020. Ian’s career spans healthcare, finance, and media—he played college tennis, worked in post-game broadcasting for ESPN Radio, and since has become a seasoned entrepreneur and healthcare executive with a proven track record in leading high-growth companies.
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